CVE-2013-2174

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the curl_easy_unescape function in lib/escape.c in cURL and libcurl 7.7 through 7.30.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted string ending in a "%" (percent) character.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1894-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60737

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2713

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0983.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00013.html

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20130622.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-07-31

Updated: 2019-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical